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by Eyes 2577 days ago
> As a perspective if you hold your thumb up to the sky, the distance “covered up” by your thumb (if I did my math right) is approximately 480 miles

What distance? The distance immediately behind my thumb is about an inch. The distance way back at the edge of the universe is millions of light years

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The parent comment says in a footnote:

> [1] assuming orbits of 366 miles up, higher orbits would be even farther apart